The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-07-15
Letter From Dr. Anrner,u an
GREENWOOD, DKr., July 7th, 1887.

'N''"'Ob, bhi", Jul1 ftn, 1901.
The glorious Fourth is passed and the
song of the fire cracker IL no more heard
in our land. Business has again resumed
its former aspect and time rolls on. We,
the citizens of Greenwood and vicinity,
loaded down with patriotism and love for
our country, helped to celebrate the day at
Pennington, five miles north of us. The
day was delightful, cool breeze, with now
and then cloud to hide the rays of the
sun, made 1t as pleasant Fourth OF July
as we have ever witnessed. There was a
large crowd of people there Appropriate
speeches, music by cornet band, a bount-
cous supper gotten up by the ladies of the
Nj. E. Church for the benefit of the par
sonage of that place, and game of base
ball between nine composed of Green
wood and Pennington boys VS.. n Dover
nine which resulted in q victory for the
former OF Z to 10, were among the amuse-
ments of the day.
Harvesting commenced here about the
10th of June and the wheat crop is very
good. The first threshed in this section
was ten acre field on the farm of John
Todd near this place, the yield of which
was 333 bushels from 12 bushels sowing.
Others have threshed since that have aver
aged from 2j to % bushels per acre, that is
wheat sown on fallon land, that sown on
stalk land, |. c. on land that corn had been
taken off of or sown in corn stubbe, will
not yield so well as it was to dry to get 1t
sowed in time. Oats is ready to harvest
and the corn Is looking fine. The early
varieties of peaches are ripe The first
shipped from this station was on Thursday
the Goth of June. From now on till the
last of Sept we will have ripe peaches, as
one variety is gone another comes on 1t
is beautiful sight to see the trees laden
with red ripe fruit. The crop will not be
as heavy as some years owing to frost
that killed some while in blossom. Many
orchards have all they can bear, while others
have not so many. Strawberries were an av-
erage crop and sold in fhilad elphia, New
York and Boston markets for from to Is
cents per quart. Grass was heavy and a
| good crop Of hay was made, our soil is
particularly adapted to clover, it takes
readily Oh our lightest soil and on improv-
ed land it grows abundant. We are hav-
ing in abundance string beans, new pota-
toes, beets, radlshes, peas, &c. Also ber-
ries of every description, both wild and
cultivated, many of the above we haye en-.
| joyed for weeks past We will soon have
sugar corn, sweet potatoes, water melons,
tomatoes, &c.
| On Sunday the Bird inst myself and fam.
| lily in company with David Stroup and
family and others from this place drove
down to Browns M. E. church near Mid
dleford to attend children's day The
three congregations: Browns, Bethel, and
Concord, that compose Caunons circuit
met in the grove near Browns church and
held their services together. This is the
church that f. S. Kinports and wife attend
After the forenoon services it was in orde1
to take lunch, ana AS would be perfectly
natural we Pennsylvanians with a few 9th
ers spread our tables tOgethoI and partooi
| OF an exCCllrnJ ulnncT Sucn as Ienna. wO
men are capable of preparing In tn,
afternoon services were resumed at o'clocl
and the day was thus pleasantly spent il
listening to the speeches of the children
singing, &c. The collection lifted was SG5
We had delightful rain last evenin!
and every corn field is doing Its level bes
to get ahead Of Its neighbor.
Dayid Stroup has his new house abou
completed and will soon be nicely located
on the main couuty road, the Old building
arc back. His crops are looking fine. III
will do well here, for, as the saying is here
"he's a working white man sure" f.
Kinports is rapidly improving his farm AM
is getting along nicely. VIII haye a mic
lot of peaches this year. Mrs, A. opened
millinery and notion store here this sprin
and is having nice trade. There is vcr.
little sickness in the county at present.
any of you Columbia county people con
template visiting Delaware there would
no nicer time for to do so than dun
ing the peach season. When you com
you will find our latch string on the out
side. Respectfully
, G. w ANNERNAN